What triggered the protests?

Thousands of people took to the streets in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, this week after parliament backed a draft law which critics, who called it a “Russian law”, said would limit press freedom and undercut Georgia’s efforts to become a candidate for EU membership.

The law, backed by the ruling Georgian Dream party, would require any organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as “foreign agents” or face substantial fines.

After two days of wide-scale protests, the party on Thursday announced it would “unconditionally withdraw the bill we supported without any reservations”.